Linux's share of netbooks surging

Snit · External Since: Jan 09, 2009 Posts: 261

Rick stated in post LOydnSR71eMbVW7XnZ2dnUVZ_uSdnZ2d.TakeThisOut@supernews.com on
11/5/09 11:56 PM:

> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:20:38 -0700, Snit wrote:
>
>> Rick stated in post 5rGdnS6_tK7FL27XnZ2dnUVZ_qRi4p2d.TakeThisOut@supernews.com on
>> 11/5/09 10:21 PM:
>>
>>> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:36:39 -0700, Snit wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rick stated in post 5rGdnS-_tK7O5G7XnZ2dnUVZ_qRi4p2d.TakeThisOut@supernews.com on
>>>> 11/5/09 6:18 PM:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:59:12 -0700, Snit wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Rick stated in post uIOdnZg9Yv9k_m7XnZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d.TakeThisOut@supernews.com
>>>>>> on 11/5/09 4:47 PM:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> Linux *is* broken.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, it isn't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nothing to fix at all?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sod off, Snit. You know what I meant.
>>>>
>>>> You do have a history of running from intrinsic problems with desktop
>>>> Linux...
>>>
>>> You have a history of lying your butt off.
>>>
>>>
>> So you say... but can never find any examples. Do you want me to find
>> examples of you running from intrinsic problems with desktop Linux...
>> where you jump to external issues such as unfair MS tactics, "herd
>> mentality" and your other mantras? Easy to do!
>
> Post whatever you want.

Thanks for the permission, Dad! Smile

> You will just continue to show that almost all of the "intrinsic problems" you
> whine about are trivial compared to things such as Microsoft's
> anti-competitive tactics, inertia and herd mentality, and your complete lack
> of understanding of them.

Thanks for proving my point!

> You also show your ego-centrism by accusing me of using "mantras" while
> copy/paste ad nauseum.

Your "mantras" are your mini-blurbs you show a very, very poor understanding
of. Then again, you support your points poorly in general.

> So, go ahead, have your last word as your ego requires.

Project much?

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CremeBrulee · External Since: Nov 06, 2009 Posts: 1

On Nov 5, 4:01 am, Rick <n....DeleteThis@mail.invalid> wrote:
> Linux's share of netbookssurging, not sagging, says analyst
>
> <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140343/
> Linux_s_share_of_netbooks_surging_not_sagging_says_analyst>

Earlier this year I bought a Dell mini 9 with Ubuntu...I had it for a
few months until it was stolen from me in downtown Seattle (snatched
as I was typing at a park table!)

Anyway, I had signed up back then for a Google Group about the Dell
Mini with Ubuntu. I hadn't been getting my mail from this group
because I had a spam filter blocking it...but then I changed how I
handle my mail (turned the back end spam filter off and used
Thunderbird) and to my surprise I started getting 20 emails a day from
the Ubuntu Dell Mini forum!!

I'd say, if anything, the press has been suppressing the high number
of people here in the U.S. who want, bought and use Linux especially
on netbooks.

High Plains Thumper · External Since: Aug 01, 2007 Posts: 98

Rick wrote:
> Snit wrote:
>> Rick stated:
>>> Snit wrote:
>>>> Rick stated:
>>>>> Snit wrote:
>>>>>> Rick stated:
>>>>>>> John Fuhrer (Flatfish) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Linux *is* broken.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, it isn't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nothing to fix at all?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sod off, Snit. You know what I meant.
>>>>
>>>> You do have a history of running from intrinsic problems with
>>>> desktop Linux...
>>>
>>> You have a history of lying your butt off.
>>
>> So you say... but can never find any examples. Do you want me to
>> find examples of you running from intrinsic problems with desktop
>> Linux... where you jump to external issues such as unfair MS
>> tactics, "herd mentality" and your other mantras? Easy to do!
>
> Post whatever you want. You will just continue to show that almost
> all of the "intrinsic problems" you whine about are trivial compared
> to things such as Microsoft's anti-competitive tactics, inertia and
> herd mentality, and your complete lack of understanding of them.
>
> You also show your ego-centrism by accusing me of using "mantras"
> while copy/paste ad nauseum.
>
> So, go ahead, have your last word as your ego requires.

Following statement from a Linux advocate sums up Snit's trolling quite
nicely:

105- Sermo Malifer (COLA):
Snit: "Why do so many people in COLA argue *against* me..."
Sermo Malifer: "Because you're a narcissistic troll who posts trash just
to get people talking about you." 21 Jan 2009

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/5ddf14f502e9b3f1

But you are correct. Snit brings up and also falsifies minor issues,
making them into big ones. Best example is talking trash about copying
and pasting. Rather than being a storehouse of knowledge one would
expect from a so called higher learning professor of IT (which I gather
Snit must be an imposter of), we have someone who kludges together
altered evidence on his website, posting them as absolute truth as troll
bait for discussion. Then bends the discussion toward being about Snit
and supporting the worst trolls in COLA.

You are also correct on the magnitude of issues, one being Microsoft's
continued history of anti-competitive conduct to ensure its continued
presence in the market place. For example:

http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf

[quote]
Microsoft - A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer
Harm, March 31, 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION ..............................................1
II. MICROSOFT'S HISTORY OF ANTICOMPETITIVE CONDUCT ...........3
A. Microsoft's Campaign To Destroy DR-DOS ................3
B. Microsoft's Anticompetitive Per Processor License Fees 5
C. Microsoft's Retaliation And Price Discrimination
Against IBM ..................................................6
D. Microsoft's Organized Collective Boycott Against Intel 7
E. Microsoft's Elimination Of Word Perfect ...............7
F. Microsoft's Deceptive WISE Software Program ...........9
G. Microsoft's Elimination Of Netscape ..................10
H. Microsoft's Attempts To Extinguish Java ..............14
I. Microsoft's Elimination Of Rival Media Players .......16
J. Microsoft's Campaign Against Rival Server Operating
Systems .....................................................18
III. MICROSOFT CONTINUES TO ENGAGE IN ANTICOMPETITIVE CONDUCT
..............................................................19
A. Microsoft's Failure To Comply With The Final Judgment 20
B. Microsoft's Campaign of Patent FUD against Linux and
Open Source Software ........................................23
C. Microsoft's Ongoing Misconduct Has Sparked Further
European Commission Investigations ..........................23
IV. MICROSOFT'S FALSE PROMISES OF INTEROPERABILITY ..........24
V. MICROSOFT'S MONOPOLIES HAVE HARMED CONSUMERS .............25
A. Microsoft's Operating System Monopoly Has Harmed
Consumers ...................................................25
B. Microsoft's Office Monopoly Has Harmed Consumers .........26
C. Microsoft's Web Browser Monopoly Has Harmed Consumers ....28
VI. CONCLUSION ..............................................31
[/quote]

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Terry Porter · External Since: Jan 10, 2009 Posts: 131

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:57:28 -0800, CremeBrulee wrote:

> On Nov 5, 4:01 am, Rick <n... DeleteThis @mail.invalid> wrote:
>> Linux's share of netbookssurging, not sagging, says analyst
>>
>> <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140343/
>> Linux_s_share_of_netbooks_surging_not_sagging_says_analyst>
>
> Earlier this year I bought a Dell mini 9 with Ubuntu...I had it for a
> few months until it was stolen from me in downtown Seattle (snatched as
> I was typing at a park table!)

That's rotten luck, hope you get another one soon Smile

>
> Anyway, I had signed up back then for a Google Group about the Dell Mini
> with Ubuntu. I hadn't been getting my mail from this group because I
> had a spam filter blocking it...but then I changed how I handle my mail
> (turned the back end spam filter off and used Thunderbird) and to my
> surprise I started getting 20 emails a day from the Ubuntu Dell Mini
> forum!!
>
> I'd say, if anything, the press has been suppressing the high number of
> people here in the U.S. who want, bought and use Linux especially on
> netbooks.

Not surprising to me here in Australia.

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operating systems."

Chris Ahlstrom · External Since: Jan 08, 2009 Posts: 484

CremeBrulee pulled this Usenet boner:

> On Nov 5, 4:01?am, Rick <n....RemoveThis@mail.invalid> wrote:
>> Linux's share of netbookssurging, not sagging, says analyst
>>
>> <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140343/
>> Linux_s_share_of_netbooks_surging_not_sagging_says_analyst>
>
> Earlier this year I bought a Dell mini 9 with Ubuntu...I had it for a
> few months until it was stolen from me in downtown Seattle (snatched
> as I was typing at a park table!)

Were you able to identify this Microsoft Munchkin?

(Hope my little bit of humor is not taken the wrong way; I'm sorry for your
loss.)

> Anyway, I had signed up back then for a Google Group about the Dell
> Mini with Ubuntu. I hadn't been getting my mail from this group
> because I had a spam filter blocking it...but then I changed how I
> handle my mail (turned the back end spam filter off and used
> Thunderbird) and to my surprise I started getting 20 emails a day from
> the Ubuntu Dell Mini forum!!
>
> I'd say, if anything, the press has been suppressing the high number
> of people here in the U.S. who want, bought and use Linux especially
> on netbooks.

One wonders.

--
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact...
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

chrisv · External Since: Nov 02, 2004 Posts: 1797

Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>CremeBrulee pulled this Usenet boner:
>>
>> Earlier this year I bought a Dell mini 9 with Ubuntu...I had it for a
>> few months until it was stolen from me in downtown Seattle (snatched
>> as I was typing at a park table!)
>
>Were you able to identify this Microsoft Munchkin?

Hehe. Well, he should have known better to use Linux in public in
Seattle, just a stones-throw away from Redmond...

Maybe it was Quack, cackling, spittle-flying, raving "Suspend doesn't
work! Suspend doesn't work!"

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"Clearly you have some irrational hatred for MS." - "True Linux
advocate" Hadron Quark

DFS · External Since: Jun 07, 2005 Posts: 3577

CremeBrulee wrote:
> On Nov 5, 4:01 am, Rick <n....TakeThisOut@mail.invalid> wrote:
>> Linux's share of netbookssurging, not sagging, says analyst
>>
>> <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140343/
>> Linux_s_share_of_netbooks_surging_not_sagging_says_analyst>
>
> Earlier this year I bought a Dell mini 9 with Ubuntu...I had it for a
> few months until it was stolen from me in downtown Seattle (snatched
> as I was typing at a park table!)

What, you couldn't catch the jigaboo?

> I'd say, if anything, the press has been suppressing the high number
> of people here in the U.S. who want, bought and use Linux especially
> on netbooks.

Yeah, it's all part of that huge MS conspiracy.

John Fuhrer · External Since: Nov 03, 2009 Posts: 76

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:11:14 -0500, DFS wrote:

> CremeBrulee wrote:
>> On Nov 5, 4:01 am, Rick <n... RemoveThis @mail.invalid> wrote:
>>> Linux's share of netbookssurging, not sagging, says analyst
>>>
>>> <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140343/
>>> Linux_s_share_of_netbooks_surging_not_sagging_says_analyst>
>>
>> Earlier this year I bought a Dell mini 9 with Ubuntu...I had it for a
>> few months until it was stolen from me in downtown Seattle (snatched
>> as I was typing at a park table!)
>
> What, you couldn't catch the jigaboo?

"And now, for my next impression: Jesse Owens"

(Blazing Saddles)

>> I'd say, if anything, the press has been suppressing the high number
>> of people here in the U.S. who want, bought and use Linux especially
>> on netbooks.
>
> Yeah, it's all part of that huge MS conspiracy.

These Linux zealots are just plain nuts.

I'll bet the guy who swiped it tried to fence it but since it was Linux he
couldn't get rid of it so he tossed it in the river or something.

These thieves have to learn to swipe the good laptops.

Hint: look for the Apple logo.

Ian Hilliard · External Since: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 443

Snit wrote:
> Rick stated in post uIOdnZg9Yv9k_m7XnZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d.RemoveThis@supernews.com on
> 11/5/09 4:47 PM:
>
> ...
>>> Linux *is* broken.
>>>
>> No, it isn't.
>
> Nothing to fix at all?
>
>

There are things in OSX, that could do with fixing, the most annoying of
these being the wireless drop-outs, does that mean that OSX is broken?

Ian

Megabyte · External Since: Jul 05, 2009 Posts: 19

Ian Hilliard wrote:
> Snit wrote:
>> Rick stated in post uIOdnZg9Yv9k_m7XnZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d.DeleteThis@supernews.com on
>> 11/5/09 4:47 PM:
>>
>> ...
>>>> Linux *is* broken.
>>>>
>>> No, it isn't.
>>
>> Nothing to fix at all?
>>
>>
>
> There are things in OSX, that could do with fixing, the most annoying of
> these being the wireless drop-outs, does that mean that OSX is broken?
>
> Ian

Wireless drop-outs? What wireless drop-outs are you referring to? I've
never experienced one. In my situation wireless is as reliable in OS X
as it is in Windows 7 and\or Linux.

John Fuhrer · External Since: Nov 03, 2009 Posts: 76

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:36:03 +0100, Ian Hilliard wrote:

> The MacBooks have a bit of a quirk that they lose Wireless connection
> even with a good signal. The only answer for this is to turn the
> wireless off and then turn it back on.
>
> It is annoying, but it is no reason to say that OSX is broken.
>
> Ian

My Lenovo T400 is doing the same thing.
I just upped the power on the wireless to see if changes anything.

Ian Hilliard · External Since: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 443

Megabyte wrote:
> Ian Hilliard wrote:
>> Snit wrote:
>>> Rick stated in post uIOdnZg9Yv9k_m7XnZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d.DeleteThis@supernews.com on
>>> 11/5/09 4:47 PM:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>>> Linux *is* broken.
>>>>>
>>>> No, it isn't.
>>>
>>> Nothing to fix at all?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There are things in OSX, that could do with fixing, the most annoying
>> of these being the wireless drop-outs, does that mean that OSX is broken?
>>
>> Ian
>
> Wireless drop-outs? What wireless drop-outs are you referring to? I've
> never experienced one. In my situation wireless is as reliable in OS X
> as it is in Windows 7 and\or Linux.

The MacBooks have a bit of a quirk that they lose Wireless connection
even with a good signal. The only answer for this is to turn the
wireless off and then turn it back on.

It is annoying, but it is no reason to say that OSX is broken.

Ian

JEDIDIAH · External Since: Sep 24, 2004 Posts: 1070

On 2009-11-08, Ian Hilliard <nospam RemoveThis @hilliardtech.com> wrote:
>
>
> Snit wrote:
>> Rick stated in post uIOdnZg9Yv9k_m7XnZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d RemoveThis @supernews.com on
>> 11/5/09 4:47 PM:
>>
>> ...
>>>> Linux *is* broken.
>>>>
>>> No, it isn't.
>>
>> Nothing to fix at all?
>>
>>
>
> There are things in OSX, that could do with fixing, the most annoying of
> these being the wireless drop-outs, does that mean that OSX is broken?

The NIH attitude when it comes to video formats is my biggest personal pet
peeve when it comes to MacOS. The last iteration of this general issue was a
refusal by iMovie to use mpeg files extracted from a recently required Sony
Handicam.

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